If you've noticed a strange infestation on one of your trees or wonder if, or when, you should trim back a tree, but don't want to call out a tree service to ask, Sloat Garden Center has a solution. It's arranged to have two certified arb..

There will be competitive races for seats on the boards of the Marin Municipal Water District, the Marin Community College District and the Marin Healthcare District in the Nov. 6 election. That became apparent on Friday, which was the early deadline..

Mark Shotwell, an administrator at Ritter Center in San Rafael, has been promoted to interim executive director, effective Aug. 1. "This was a planned transition," said Ritter Center board chair Bobbe Rockoff in a written statement. "We are grateful ..

San Rafael is getting ready to build an important link that will add safety and access for those traveling between the Canal neighborhood and downtown. Whether they are students going to and from San Rafael High School and their Canal homes, or shopp..

Diesel, A Bookstore, which quickly became a beloved community gathering place for literary minds in Larkspur, is closing after a brief five-year stint at the Marin Country Mart shopping center. While community bookstores are becoming a rarity in the ..

It's only 10 blocks long and four blocks wide, but San Rafael's downtown has caught the eye of at least one Bay Area real estate blog. Neighborhoods.com, in its newly released ranking, listed San Rafael as one of "6 Bay Area Suburbs with the ..

Investigators plan to seek an attempted murder charge against a suspect shot by police during a confrontation in San Rafael. The suspect is Faramarz Aghazadeh, 48, a San Rafael transient, authorities disclosed Wednesday...

One ordinance will require property owners in unincorporated Marin County to notify their neighbors before offering short-term rentals. The other gives county Finance Director Roy Given authority to record a tax lien against the owner and manager of ..

A new multiuse pathway will be built in San Rafael over the next 95 days, following a vote this week to greenlight the $3.3 million project. "My understanding is that the genesis of this was the Canal Vision Project, which was approved in 2009," said..

Service is fast and accommodating in Aloh-O's tidy, somewhat sparse, environment at Northgate One. Last year, it was predicted that poke - the Hawaiian raw-fish specialty - was going to be the next phenomenon in fast-casual food...

When the Marin County Board Supervisors meets at 9 a.m. on Tuesday at the Civic Center in San Rafael, it considers approving an additional $500,000 spending for the Landlord Partnership Program to encourage landlords to accept Section 8 housing vouch..

Kapamilya reporter Ginger Conejero marked a personal milestone Monday as she married her American partner, Bruno Saab, in an intimate ceremony in California, USA. The former Star Patroller and current ABS-CBN International reporter wore a Vera Wang d..

Home of some of the most eye-grabbing Eichers , San Rafael doesn't skip when it comes to midcentury marvels. Take, for example, 1 Mount Susitna Court in San Rafael, a four-bed, three-bath, 2,064-square-foot home from the noted developer, which va..

The shooting concluded a standoff that began shortly after 9 p.m. in the Canal area, when an officer driving on Verdi Street saw a man brandishing two knives. The man was swinging the knives "in a windmill fashion," Holton said...

There are 18 wildfires now blazing across California, which means many of the state's residents are waking up to the smell of smoke and hazy skies. The Carr fire near Redding has scorched at least 141,825 acres and killed six people, and three fi..

In a foray for converts around Bolinas Bay, a number of children, males, were found and taken from their families to the Mission Dolores. Most were around 5 years old, but one named Lupugeym was a couple of years older...

A gas leak has prompted the closure of Bellam Boulevard between East Francisco Boulevard and Belvedere Street just east of Interstate 580 due to a possible gas leak at a business at 123 Bellam, San Rafael police said today on social media...

After more than seven years of planning, design work and public outreach, San Rafael officials on Monday are expected to vote on construction of a $3.3 million bike and pedestrian pathway connecting the Canal area with the downtown transit center, SM..

Francesca Bell writes about what "people don't talk about in polite conversation." The Novato poet has penned poems about religion, mental illness and sexual violence. Bell, 51, discovered her love of poetry at a young age...

Instrumental quartet Circles Around the Sun will return to Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California on September 28. The performance follows a show at the Crown Room At Crystal Bay Club on September 26 and comes ahead of a concert at Old Princet..

Sean Taylor watches Andrew Vingiello, left, strain grape juice at San Francisco's A.P. VIN. If you grow grapes in your garden, winemaker Sean Taylor wants to show you how to turn them into wine in your garage...